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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

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